Odoo 11 Development Essentials - Third Edition

Common field attributes

Fields have additional attributes available for us to define their behavior. Some of these can be set positionally, without an argument keyword, as shown in the previous section.

For example, perc_complete = fields.Float('% Complete', (3, 2)) is making use of positional arguments. Using the keyword arguments, it could be written as perc_complete = fields.Float(string='% Complete', digits=(3,2)). More information on keyword arguments can be found in the Python official documentation at https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/controlflow.html#keyword-arguments.

These are the generally available attributes and the corresponding argument keywords:

• string is the field default label, to be used in the user interface. Except ...